About this Item: La Rivista illustrata del 'popolo d'italia', 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First Edition, First Printing. Milano. La Rivista illustrata del 'popolo d'italia', 1937. Hardcover with rigid cardboard covers finished in balck and grey celluliod with a grand stylized fascio on the front cover. Oversized / Elephant folio. 625 pages with hundreds of photographs and illustrations (including numerous advertisements in the rear). Includes photograhs by Frederico Patellani, Stefano Bricarelli, Lucio Ridenti and Bruno Stefani. Illustrations by Marcello Nizzoli, Mario Sironi, Bramante Buffoni, Ruggero Micaelles, Erberto Carboni and Paolo Garretto. Reproductions of photographs in b/w & duo-tone, photographic reproductions of paintings. This volume was designed by the best idealogues, intellectuals and artists of the fascist regime and as such crystalizes the ideals of Italian fascism in all facets of life under Mussolini's rule. BOOK CONDITION: Very Good +; a solid, well-bound volume with some rubbing to front and rear panels, a bit of soiling and staining to the same and light overall scratching to rear panel, spine shows a bit of white paint speckles and there are 2 small areas of loss to celluliod along rear joint and at corners of head/foot of spine, as well as a larger are of loss to outer celluliod cover (about 3 inches long at the center of the front joint (which is merely cosmetic and as such does not affect the integrity of the binding). Overall a solid, relatively clean copy of this very large and comprehensive volume on Italian Fascsim. "The best Italian photobook from the fascist era has to be Italia Imperiale. A 'special issue' of the magazine La Rivista illustrata del 'popolo d'italia' (Italian People's Illustrated Magazine), this enormous volume is the ultimate guide to the Italy of Benito Mussolini, the Italian equivalent of the great Russian propaganda photographic books. The book combines some excellent modernist photography with painted illustrations and photocollages, but its immediate impact derives from its size - a full-page photograph or montage on this scale has enormous power, especially the many splendid industrial and architectural photographs in the New Version style. Particularly notable is a close-up portrait of Il Duce, which is almost life-size, overbearing and impressive. Italia imperiale runs through the more-or-less standard iconography of propaganda books, beginning with history - close-ups of Roman ruins, an account of the Venetian and Genoese maritime republics - before introducing Il Capo and accounts of Italy's ill-fated colonialist military adventures of the 1930s in such places as Ethiopia and Somalia, before we are given extensive and interesting views of Italy under construction. There are many fine examples of architectural and industrial photography. The architectural imagery primarily features buildings in the 'fascist modern' style, that rigidly classical mode that seemed to be adopted by all the fascist countries, but nowhere more successfully than in Italy, its natural home." (Parr/Badger, The Photobook, vol. 1, p. 175). Seller Inventory # 2171

About this Item: NP, Milan, 1939. Hardcover. Condition: vg. Ex-library. Folio. Unpaginated. Late library cloth with gilt lettering and catalog number on spine. Red page edges. Retaining bookplate of the Leeds library. Small unobtrusive library stamps on lower corners of lithographic plates. Original illustrated wrappers are bound in at the front and rear. Striking account of Benito Mussolini and the fascist movement and its history in Italy. Published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the fascist party. Profusely illustrated with full page and in-text b/w reproductions of photographs as well as full page reproductions of color paintings on stiff paper by Mario Sironi. Manlio Morgagni was director and president of the Stefani Agency and was a close friend of Mussolini's. Text in Italian. Minor rubbing and scuffing to boards. Corners rubbed. Small parts of fore-edge on five leaves repaired with white tape. Tight copy in very good condition. Scarce. Seller Inventory # 13397

About this Item: Popolo D'Italia, Milan, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: vg. Elephant folio. Unpaginated. Gray and black decorated glossy boards with red, white and green lettering to cover. Expertly rebacked. Silk endpapers. "The best Italian photobook from the fascist era has to be Italia Imperiale. A 'special issue' of the magazine La Rivista illustrata del 'popolo d'italia' (Italian People's Illustrated Magazine), this enormous volume is the ultimate guide to the Italy of Benito Mussolini, the Italian equivalent of the great Russian propaganda photographic books. The book combines some excellent modernist photography with painted illustrations and photocollages, but its immediate impact derives from its size - a full-page photograph or montage on this scale has enormous power, especially the many splendid industrial and architectural photographs in the New Version style. Particularly notable is a close-up portrait of Il Duce, which is almost life-size, overbearing and impressive. Italia imperiale runs through the more-or-less standard iconography of propaganda books, beginning with history - close-ups of Roman ruins, an account of the Venetian and Genoese maritime republics - before introducing Il Capo and accounts of Italy's ill-fated colonialist military adventures of the 1930s in such places as Ethiopia and Somalia, before we are given extensive and interesting views of Italy under construction. There are many fine examples of architectural and industrial photography. The architectural imagery primarily features buildings in the 'fascist modern' style, that rigidly classical mode that seemed to be adopted by all the fascist countries, but nowhere more successfully than in Italy, its natural home." (Parr/Badger, The Photobook, vol. 1, p. 175). Photographs by Frederico Patellani, Stefano Bricarelli, Lucio Ridenti and Bruno Stefani. Illustrations by Marcello Nizzoli, Mario Sironi, Bramante Buffoni, Ruggero Micaelles, Erberto Carboni and Paolo Garretto. Reproductions of photographs in b/w & duo-tone, photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings in color & b/w. Manlio Morgagni was a personal friend of Mussolini's. He committed suicide when receiving the news of Mussolini's fall. Text in Italian. Some scuffing, scratching and minor staining on boards. Slight creasing to leaf preceding title-page and to last two leaves. Tight copy in very good condition. Extra shipping required. Elaborate Italian propaganda photobook of Mussolini's pre-war "Imperial Italy." Edizione Speciale Della Rivista illustrata del 'popolo d'italia'. Seller Inventory # 13398